Counterfit vs. John the Ripper

Counterfit

1 Reviews and Ratings

John the Ripper

2 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Counterfit	Score7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft supports the open source Counterfit command line tool. Made open source in 2021, the tool can be used in any environment (it is environment agnostic) or deployed from the cloud (e.g. Azure), and it is used to test the vulnerability of machine learning and AI systems. It enables the user to write attack scripts for red team operations and penetration testing of these systems.	N/A
John the Ripper	Score8 out of 10	N/A	John the Ripper is a penetration testing tool used to find and crack weak passwords.	N/A

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Best Alternatives
	Counterfit	John the Ripper
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Metasploit Score9 out of 10	Metasploit Score9 out of 10
Enterprises	Metasploit Score9 out of 10	Metasploit Score9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Counterfit	John the Ripper
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Counterfit	John the Ripper
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source It is best suited in those environments where complexity is not the key. We've used it fairly extensively in our UNIX to find weak UNIX passwords and in Windows environments too. It's very easy to get hold of as it is essentially Open Source, although a paid version is now available and we are thinking of looking at this proposition in-depth to see if it is viable. We found it easy to install and deploy across our systems. Patching was fairly regular, so we always had the latest version. It holds its own against DES and Blowfish encryption algorithms among many others. Incentivized Azhar Chaudri Security Team Lead Analyst Read full review
Pros	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source Easily finds plantect passwords. Simply detects passwords hashes. Has a fully bespoke cracker that can be modified to users requirements. Excellent for UNIX and Windows usage. Incentivized Azhar Chaudri Security Team Lead Analyst Read full review
Cons	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source It needs to be modified to be able to break SHA 256, 512 and the lastest hashes. Can be slow and wildly against the lastest hashes. Require admin access to set up account. Old and is being superseded by better applications. Incentivized Azhar Chaudri Security Team Lead Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source 'John the Ripper' being open source was free to use, whereas the others had to be paid for. It was very simple to install and runs against many hundreds of hashes and crypts. It is always developing thanks to large communities on GitHub. Incentivized Azhar Chaudri Security Team Lead Analyst Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source Helped us achieve initial Password Auditor goals and targets. Simple and cheap to deploy, so have saved greatly compared to paid for products. Incentivized Azhar Chaudri Security Team Lead Analyst Read full review
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